One thing Microsoft founder Bill Gates can’t be accused of is sloth. He was already pro­gram­ming at 14, founded Microsoft at age 20 while still a stu­dent at Har­vard. By 1995 he had been listed by Forbes as the world’s rich­est man from being the largest share­holder in his Microsoft, a com­pany which his relent­less drive built into a de facto monop­oly in soft­ware sys­tems for per­sonal computers.

Why are young peo­ple in Amer­ica so frus­trated these days? You are about to find out. Most young adults started out hav­ing faith in the sys­tem. They worked hard, they got good grades, they stayed out of trou­ble and many of them went on to col­lege. But when their edu­ca­tions where over, they dis­cov­ered that the good jobs that they had been promised were not wait­ing for them at the end of the rainbow.

On Thurs­day, a town hall meet­ing hosted by Al Sharp­ton and the National Action Net­work to address gun violence

(Most likely intended to address gun reg­is­tra­tion, as if that would do any­thing) exploded into a revolt against “Chicago Machine” pol­i­tics, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and the alder­men in City Hall, and some even directed toward Al Sharp­ton him­self (it about time!)